WKVI Welcomes New Morning Show Host

Kankakee Valley Broadcasting is pleased to welcome a new morning show host to K99.3 WKVI-FM. Ray Grossman will be on the air each weekday morning from 5 until 9 a.m. Central and will continue to play the Valley’s best mix of music along with the local programming listeners expect from WKVI.

Local news will still air at the top and bottom of each hour. Additional local sportscasts have been added and will air at 5:50, 6:50, 7:50 and 8:50 each morning. Birthdays will be on at 6:40, 7:40 and 8:40 a.m. The long-running “Beatle Break” segment at 7:20 a.m. will be replaced by “One-Hit Wonders.” Kersting’s Cycle Center will continue as the sponsor.

Ray brings a wealth of radio experience to WKVI. He’s previously worked at stations in South Bend, Elkhart, Warsaw and Benton Harbor, Mich. and most recently worked at FOX 28 –TV in South Bend.

He takes over mornings from interim host and Kankakee Valley Broadcasting General Manager Lenny Dessauer, who has filled in the past several months for longtime WKVI morning man Tom Berg during his Stage 4 cancer treatment.

WKVI News Director Mary Perren is glad to be back home in northern Indiana and on the radio. She’s a North Judson native with more than 20 years of news experience. She’s worked in print and radio news in Indianapolis, Hopkinsville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn. and most recently in Winamac before taking over as news director for Kankakee Valley Broadcasting in February of 2013. Her work has been honored by the Associated Press, StateNets News Association, Curb Foundation, Hoosier State Press Association and IBA. When she’s not sitting in the anchor chair or chasing down news, Mary enjoys shopping for antiques, attending concerts and taking long walks and rides in her vintage Saab convertible, weather permitting. She’s also a hopelessly devoted Chicago Cubs fanatic who still cringes at the mention of Steve Garvey and Josh Beckett and maintains it wasn’t Steve Bartman’s fault.